Weird and Religious
In ancient Greece, people visited healing temples dedicated to Asclepius, where they slept in the temple hoping the god would appear in dreams and prescribe a cure. Priests then interpreted the dreams as medical advice.
Religious image of the day.
In the name of religion
1998, Maluku Islands in Indonesia. Christian and Muslim militias clashed in communal warfare, burning villages and killing civilians. Both sides justified violence as defence of their Christian or Muslim faith communities, protection of churches or mosques, and resistance to domination.
Fact
In Islam, the declaration of faith affirms belief in one God and in Muhammad as messenger, and Islam treats this statement as entry into the faith.
No theological escape
The concept of Free Will collapses under scrutiny. Religions insist that humans are free to choose, yet god is said to know everything that will ever happen. If god knows with certainty what a person will choose tomorrow, that person cannot choose otherwise, and a choice that cannot be different is not free. Knowledge and freedom cannot coexist in the way religion demands. Either god does not know future actions, which undermines omniscience, or humans are not free, which undermines moral responsibility, and theologians have tried for centuries to escape this trap without success.
Quote of the day
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil, but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg.
Ask the right question
If divine communication is real, why is it so easily confused with mental illness, imagination or wishful thinking?
Religious Crooks
Cho Yong-gi, founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea, built one of the world’s largest megachurches and was later convicted of embezzlement and tax related offences tied to church funds.
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Almost all of the crooks appearing in this section have their own wikipedia page.
If a real God existed, would he allow crooks to act on his behalf?